breadbasket

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King soon asked Jackson to be the national director of Operation Breadbasket.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

"We learned at his feet," said Al Sharpton, a fellow veteran civil rights activist who had worked with Jackson at Operation Breadbasket decades earlier.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

As the Chicago Tribune reported, Collins often served a young Rev. Jesse Jackson and other organizers of Operation Breadbasket — a predecessor of Operation Push — for free at Argia B's Bar-B-Q.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2021

So many people misunderstood Operation Breadbasket to be a food-handout program, but Johnson learned that hunger was a big problem among low-income families.

From Washington Times • Apr. 2, 2018

And Mrs. Breadbasket it was, sure enough—Mrs. Breadbasket in deep mourning, who made her way, bowing and looking very sad, into the back shop.

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace